Finite IT puts 200,000 candidate profiles in the cloud with iProfile

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 12:10

IT Industry - Market

Mr Thomson says iProfile will give IT professionals an unprecedented level of control over their personal information.

"It offers you an easy way of keeping your details up to date whether you're applying for work or not," he says.

"It's a secure site; it's your data; you have pass word control over it and you can update that data any time you want."

In addition users can download their iProfile to a Word document for printing or emailing if they wish.

From the perspective of recruiters, Mr Thomson says the productivity gains for consultants will be significant.

"Ordinary CVs come in all shapes and sizes. Typically, when recruiters come across a CV they need to home in on what the key skills are. The beauty of an iProfile is that its format picks up all your most recent skills and experience and puts that first. So it's a very good way of maintaining up to date data and giving priority to your most recent skill sets and experience.

"It takes our own technology forward in leaps and bounds. Although we had an automated dispatch service so that anybody responding to a particular job went straight to our consultant looking after that job, it still took about two or three days to add that candidate to our database so the rest of the company could search on that candidate. With iProfile, on average it takes about three minutes.

"So within about three minutes of receiving a CV, it will be reformatted and available for search. This is a huge step forward in us being able to find good quality candidates quickly."

According to Mr Thomson, iProfile is expected to provide Finite with up to 40% productivity improvement because of its intelligent skills parsing capabilities.

"It's a piece of intelligent software that while it goes through the parsing process it gives weighting to the most recent skill sets and experience. It recognises 15 thousand different types of skills and it tags that information. That means when we do a search through the database for good quality candidates, it allows us to home in on them far quicker. Our search is far more focussed."

According to Finite, its recruiters will automatically be informed whenever any of candidate iProfiles are updated, saving them time previously wasted calling candidates for which they hold an out of date CV.

iProfile anticipates that up to 500,000 iProfile’s will be created within Australia during the next 6 months as other launch recruitment partners come online.
 
Glen Perry, MD of iProfile in Asia Pacific says: "We’re delighted that Finite IT is leading the Australian market by becoming the first recruitment company to introduce their candidates to the iProfile. In the UK over 90% of IT professionals now own an iProfile and with many more Australian recruitment companies currently signing up to also provide this service, we’re expecting the iProfile to catch on just as fast."

Finite has launched a new national advertising campaign to proactively promote the iProfile service to IT professionals, which is now live at four Australian capital city airports.

For more information visit www.finite.com.au